A. increase in the volume of trade
B. Smaller gain from trade
C. Decline in the income of home producers
D. Decrease in the level of specialization in production
Related Mcqs:
- By adjusting the model of comparative advantage to include transportation costs along with production costs we would expect ?
A. The prices of trade goods to be lower than when there are no transportation costs
B. specialization to stop when the production costs of the trading partners equalize
C. The volume of trade to be less than when there are no transportation costs
D. The gains from trade to be greater than when there are no transportation costs - By reducing the volume of trade transportation costs tend to ?
A. stop the process of product price equalization and factor price equalization before they are complete:
B. ensure that the process of product price equalization and factor price equalization are complete
C. eliminate all of the feasible gains from international trade
D. maximize all of the feasible gains from international trade - When free trade areas are set up the member countries trade with each other grows faster than their trade with other countries This is due to what economist call ?
A. trade diversion
B. trade channeling
C. trade creation and trade diversion
D. trade creation - Declining costs per unit of output results from international trade especially if ?
A. International trade affords producers monopoly power
B. National governments levy imports tariffs and quotas
C. Producing goods entails increasing costs
D. Economies of scale exist for producers - Which round of international trade negotiations resulted in the creation of the World Trade Organization ?
A. Kennedy Round of 1964-1967
B. Tokyo Round of 1973-1979
C. Uruguay Round of 1986-1993
D. Doha Round of 2003-2007 - Pricing to cover variable costs and some fixed costs as in the case of some automobile distributorships that sell below total costs is typical of which of the following pricing objectives ?
A. current profit maximization
B. product quality leadership
C. Market share leadership
D. Survival - For the United States empirical studies indicate that over the past two hundred years the cost of international transportation relative to the value of U.S imports has ?
A. increased
B. Decreased
C. Not changed
D. Any of the above - When the decrease in the price of one good causes the demand for another good to decrease, the goods are_________?
A. complements
B. substitutes
C. inferior
D. nromal - Assume there is no government or foreign setor, If the MPC is 75 a Rs20 million decrease in planned investment will cause aggregate output to decrease by ?
A. Rs80 million
B. Rs20 million
C. Rs 15 million
D. Rs26.67 million - A feasible effect of international trade is that a (an) ?
A. Monopoly in the home market becomes an oligopoly in the world market
B. Oligopoly in the home market becomes a monopoly in the world market
C. Purely competitive firm in the home market becomes an oligopolist
D. purely competitive firm in the home market becomes a monopolist
